The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-12-02
THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
Interesting Reports from Various United
States Officers Work of the sIints Dur
ing the Year increase OF Post-Offices@
Recommendations by administrations
6ral Villas Aids.
COINAGE STATISTICS.

ing the Year-Inerease of Post-0hices@
Recommendations by Postmsstcr=Gen
eral Villas Aids.
COINAGE STATISTICS
WASHINGTON, Nov 2S.-The annual report
of the Director of the Mint says She value
of the gold received at the minis and as
say offices during the year was sos, 223,-
072: gold redeposited, S15, 1913, 700; silver
deposited and purchased, S47, 756, 91S;
silver deposited, 1852, lis Of the gold
deposited $50, 97J, 0S7 was Of domestic
production, 500, OIL ,328 of foreign gold
bullion, SO, 500, 512 of foreign gold coin,
1915, 1884 of United States gold coin, and
s., 269, 210 of old material The coinage
of the year was: Gold 3,724, T20 pieces,
value 500, 1893, 279: silver A, 231, 28S
pieces value $34, 500, 1888; minor coins,
so, 1875, 500 pieces, value 943, $50; value of
gold bars manufactured, sos, ISIS, 953; sill
yer bars, $6,4S1,6 GIL.
The silver bullion purchased for the sill
yer dollar coinage was 90, 433, $40 standard
ounces, costing $2s, 9ss, $40 The number
of silver dollars made was 33, 2GG, S3l. OF
these 10, 901, 92S were distributed from She
minis and 10, 100000 transferred to the
Treasury The seignorage on the silver
dollars Coined was 81, 923, 55S, and on the
subsidiary silver $31,70
The number of trade dollars redeemed
under the Redemption act was 1865, 036.
Tho number imported from the passage Of
the act to September 4, 1887 was $780,
sci. The trade dollars redeemed have all
been transferred to the minis or the
assay Office at New York and melted into
bars ready for coinage The loss by abra-
sion was 40, 21579 standard ounces, equiv
alent to 40. 8 1 trade-dollars. If the trade
dollars redeemed are coined into subsidiary
silver the profit exclusive of operative
wastage, will be $63 i, 574; if coined into
standard silver dollars, 1868, OO4
The mint at Philadelphia has been taxed
to its utmost and the demand for minor
coins isstill far beyond the capacity of the
mint to promptly fill the orders.
The expenditure for the services of the
mints and assay offices was 81, 1S9, 800
The expenses of the acid fefneries was
$163, S37, against an earning of $143, 25S.
The total earnings from all sources
amounted to SIS, S42, SO and the total ex-
penses and losses of all kinds to 81 ,437, =
49,
The value of gold and silver bars issued
for use in the indus!ria arts was So, $780,
10 gold and Sd, All GAG silver.
The director estimates the stock of gold
and silver coins in the United States on
November l, 1887, to have BEEN Gold,
1914, 927, 973; silver dollars, 1927, no.
157; subsidiary silver $75 1853, 1876.
THE POSTAL SERVICE
WASHINGTON Nov 2S-The annual report
of First Assistant Postmaster-General
Stevenson shows that the number of post
offices established during the last fiscal year
was 3,U43 The increase in the whole
number of post-of1ces was /, 453, and
the whole number in operation juno
80, 1887 was 55,15 Appointments
of postmasters were made during
the year as follows: On designations and
commissions expired, 6,863; ON removals
and suspensions, 1884; on deaths of post
masters, 3S9; establishment of new offices,
| 3,043 The following seven States had
more than 1000 offices on June 80: Penn
sylvania, Ala; New York, 3,24S; Ohio,
1854; Virginia, 1856; Illinois, 2, 266; Mis-
souri,, 2, III; North Carolina, 2, Ito.
AS a result of the annual adjustment Of
| postmasters' salaries, which took effect July
| l, 1887, twenty-five offices of the third
| class were reduced to the fourth class, and
two offices of the fourth class were assigned
to the third class, leaving z, 1856 Presiden-
tial offices Divided into classes the num-
bers are as follows: First 49, second, 433:
third, 1919.
| The number of money order offices in op-
GRAFTON was 7, 745, of which 61O were in
Illinois, 34S in Iowa, $50 in New York, 493
in Ohio, 43O in Pennsylvania, 4O6 in Kan
sas, 362 in Michigan, 343 in Missouri and
1926 in Indiana. The largest increase in
any State during the fiscal year was GA, in
Kansas
Among the principal contract articles
consumed by the postal service were about
800 tons of wrapping Irvine, over 1913, O00,-
600 facing slips, over 10000, 900 blanks,
and nearly 1000 1000 letter heads
The following recommendations are
made: That the deposit of so cents for
each post-office box key be reduced to 25
cents; that authority be granted and The
necessary appropriation be made for paying
the rent of thjrl-class post-officea s~s3
The report of the Third Assistant Post
master General for the fiscal year shows
that the total ordinary postal revenue of
the year was $4S, lis, 273. The revenue
from money-order business was $719,-
1856, making a total revenue of $48,-
| S37, 500. The total expenditures for
the year, including actual and
estimated outstanding liabilities amount
| ed to $53, 1875, 252, showing de-
| felt in the revenue of $4, 295, 643. In adj
dition to this there was certified to the
Secretary of the Treasury for credit to the
Pacific railroad companies in their ac-
counts with the Government, being the
| amount earned by them in carrying the
mails, 81, 1877, OPT. So that the total excess
of the cost of the postal service over it's
revenue was So, 4S2, go
The special-delivery system has made
considerable advance during the year, the
figures indicating an increase of probably
81 per cent. over the previous year. The
recommendation is made in connection
with the special-delivery service that
investigation be started at once to
ascertain whether the pneumatic tube
system, now in successful operation
in London, Berlin and Paris, may not
economically be introduced into the great
cities of this country for the benefit, not
only of special delivery, but by an enlarged
system of tubing, for the transmission of
| all the great mails between the post-offices
and the various postal and railroad sta
tions
Attention is called to the sub-agency for
the distribution of postal cards and stamped
envelopes established during the year at
Chicago. The agency, has not only worked
well, but it has saved very considerable
amount to the Government Recommends
ton is made for two other similar agencies
at St Louis and Atlanta
Five Persons KilIed--A Dance Hall Blown
Down in Mineoa, Tex.
MINEoLA, Tex, Nov 2S-A heavy wind
storm visited this town late Saturday night,
blowing down hall in which dance
held by colored people was in prog
ress Five persons were killed and
about twenty injured. About seventy
persons were in the hall when it
collapsed Six of the injured have arms
or legs broken. The killed are Thomas
Hardman. Jack Wilson, Reuben Garrett,
Fannie Benson and Rose Benson The
store-rooms below the hall were occupied
by R. p Glenn & Co, L. A. benson and n
S. Sodekson, whose aggregate loss on
groceries and general merchandise exceeds
$4,000
Idle Looms in Rhenish Prussia-Hardship